Since 2006, airliner passengers in the USA have had to take their shoes off because one moron tried to blow up his shoes while on a flight from Paris to Miami, finally, after 19 years of no one else even thinking of such an idiotic thing, the govt will quit wasting our damn time with this when going through security

 
Travelers at U.S. airports will no longer have to remove their shoes as part of routine airport security screenings conducted by the Transportation Security Administration, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Tuesday. The new policy goes into effect immediately at all airports nationwide.

She said that efficiency at the nation’s airports will be especially important in the next few years because of major events that will bring large numbers of travelers to the United States, including the 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tsa-ends-shoe-removal-policy-for-all-us-airports-192305816.html

https://onemileatatime.com/news/tsa-no-longer-requires-shoes-removed-security/

Why that dumbass flying out of Europe caused every innocent person in a different country on the West side of the Atlantic to take their shoes off, still is a weird jump in logic. 

People are busted every damn day carrying a pistol onto airlines, but do they check everyone for pistols? That don't show up on metal detectors? Nope. 

According to that Clint Eastwood secret service movie, (Line of Fire) and some other movies, a 22 bullet in a plastic or ceramic tube, or 3d printed pistol. 

Anyway, the point is, Hollywood has shown everyone, for decades, how the bed guys always come up with something that will effectively take over an airliner, or whatever... but has TSA wasted people's time on that bullshit? Nope. Just the damn shoes.